Abstract and spatial projections of criticism: Analysis of Sıhhiye Ankara as a tolerance space

2022-2-4
Coşkuner, Kutay
Altering the environment has always been carried out to create a new reality that is in line with the needs of the living entities. In this context, there is a problematic situation in the contemporary city where the needs and expectations of the society not only change over time but also conflicts with the priorities of some authorized and administrative groups. Accordingly, contemporary cities are often inadequate to offer solutions to current complications, they even generate further problems. This study attempts to identify the unfitting state of the city on both abstract and spatial dimensions. By using the concepts of organization and tolerance as a twofold point of departure, it is claimed that what is lacking in the contemporary city is a socio-politically porous interface that is essential to manage the complexity of a network of organizations without reducing dynamic entanglements. In spatial terms, this concept refers to a notion of place that is the anonymous public realm capable to manifest the features of progression and justice through engagement. In this study, those qualities attempted to encapsulate under the name of tolerance space. Sıhhiye District of Ankara is examined as a case study of tolerance space as considered to be representative of given qualities.

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Citation Formats
K. Coşkuner, “Abstract and spatial projections of criticism: Analysis of Sıhhiye Ankara as a tolerance space,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.